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Rosemary — Half My Soul

As we entered the summer, I was a happily married man in my late 70s, looking forward to journeying deeper into old age with...

Saying Goodbye to Nana

I am an Episcopalian, and Episcopalians often give up something for Lent or take something on as a daily discipline. This might include abstaining from...

The Audacious Hope of Advent

Content warning: Miscarriage. The defining feature of my life right now is that I am pregnant. Almost every casual conversation starts with either a “Congratulations!”...

Remembering Life’s Journey

I have not seen the movie Barbie, and most likely never will. But I have two daughters who, when they were of an age that...

Grief and Loss

By John Bauerschmidt In 1978, the poet Denise Levertov released Life in the Forest, a collection that contained a handful of poems written around the...

God’s Hiddenness and a Miscarriage

Two days after Easter, my wife and I found out that our expected child was dead. She should have been twelve weeks along in...

We Will Remember Them

By Rosemary Kew In the small English town of Oundle, where my mother spent 35 of her last years, daffodils were planted in 1919 in...

Losses at the Holidays

By Marisa Crofts Some of us have lost family members. Some of us have lost jobs. All of us have lost something at some point...

Nobody Dreams of a Blue Christmas

Many churches hold special services for people who cannot feel the joy of the season.

Robust Theology, Pastoral Sensitivity

In language accessible to teens, the author shares her own journey through her mother’s cancer diagnosis, her mother’s death when the author was 12, and her experience of the vicissitudes of the grief landscape.

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